Hootsuite Leadership

Get to know our fearless leaders

Ryan Holmes

CEO

Ryan Holmes is the founder and CEO of Hootsuite. He started the company in 2008 and has helped grow it into the world’s most widely used social relationship platform, with 15-million-plus users, including more than 800 of the Fortune 1000 companies.

Sujeet Kini

CFO

Sujeet leads our finance, facilities and legal departments. He has an extensive background in corporate finance and accounting at public and private companies, including leadership roles at OpenText, GT Group Telecom, and PwC.

Penny Wilson

CMO

Penny leads our global marketing strategy—driving market leadership, awareness and demand generation. She has over 30 years of international experience delivering business growth in the technology industry.

Ajai Sehgal

CTO

With more than 18 years of expertise, Ajai leads our engineers to improve our product and technology. Before Hootsuite, he helped scale Expedia from a startup of just 60 people into the world’s largest travel agency.

Bob Elliot

SVP Global, Enterprise Sales

Bob leads all aspects of Hootsuite’s global enterprise sales strategy and execution. He brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in building high-performing sales teams and driving revenue growth.

Geordie Henderson

VP Engineering

Geordie has been building software products and companies for over 15 years. Before Hootsuite, he co-founded and grew Metalogix Software through acquisition. He is an active investor and advisor in the Vancouver startup community.

Paula Pepin

General Counsel

Ensuring legal is never an obstacle to common sense, Paula leads our global legal function. She has over 13 years of legal leadership experience—most recently building Canpages into one of Canada's fastest growing businesses.

Andrew Handford

VP, Product

Andy has spent his 20 year tech-industry career bridging product and engineering with business development and helped grow Crystal Decisions to over $1 billion in value. He leads every aspect of Hootsuite's customer-focused Product and Design, from strategy to execution.

Patience Yi

VP, Platform

Patience has a long history of building developer ecosystems. At Hootsuite, she leads the relationships with our social network partners and oversees the ecosystem of third-party developers that build into our platform.

George Pajari

Our Board of Directors

Gary Tauss

Working in technology from the infancy of the Internet, Gary brings over 25 years of experience to our Board. As either CEO or senior management, he has helped lead numerous start up companies from turnarounds to successful IPOs.

Ryan Sweeney

Ryan currently serves as a board member at leading​ ​enterprise ​software companies like Atlassian and Squarespace while taking an active role at several innovative mobile and payment startups. He is also responsible for investments with notable exits, including Groupon and Lynda.com.

Jeff Lieberman

Jeff is a managing director at Insight Venture Partners. Since joining the firm in 1998 he has led the successful exits of multiple eCommerce and software companies. In 2014, Jeff was selected by AlwaysOn as a Venture Capital 100 winner.

Ryan Holmes

An angel investor and advisor outside of Hootsuite, Ryan supports programs that empower future entrepreneurs. He currently serves on the board of Payfirma and Invoke Media and has a syndicate focused on discovering and accelerating Canadian startups.

Our Advisors

John Ruffolo

John Ruffolo is the CEO of OMERS Ventures and Executive Managing Director with OMERS Strategic Investments. Outside of Hootsuite, he empowers entrepreneurs as a member of the board for several leading Canadian innovation hubs.